Exam question 1 · Friends who cling to a legend

Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produces the largest egg.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, those · What happens: identify, live, produce · To what, where: bird species, largest egg

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 species	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 species	compound
4	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 living	punct
6	among	among	ADP	_	9 living	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 living	nsubj
8	presently	presently	ADV	_	9 living	advmod
9	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Identify	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 produces	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 produces	nsubj
12	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 living	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 egg	det
14	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 egg	amod
15	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 produces	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the bird species		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent species=Theme
2	live	gerund	those		presently property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	produce	present		the largest egg		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The golden eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The emu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 emu	det
2	emu	emu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The ostrich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ostrich	det
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The albatross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 albatross	det
2	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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